What fictional president could trump Trump?
President Donald Trump speaks near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Alamo, Texas. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP)
The sky was grey, the mood bleak as Donald Trump concluded his 'American Carnage' inauguration speech on January 20, 2017. As the newly-installed President (finally) fell silent his predecessor once removed, George W Bush, shook his head and muttered “that was some weird shit”.
The weirdness was only beginning. Twenty-four hours later, Trump would throw a hissy fit over reports in the media of vast empty spaces among the crowd gathered at Capitol Hill. Then would come the ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States; the summit with North Korea; the reports of Apprentice contestant-turned-White House hire, Omarosa Newman, leaving her shoes scattered around the West Wing. And the tweets — the endless, endless tweets. How could fiction possibly compete?
